Mobile Newsletter - Apply a custom default style on QML controls

7 articles this week Thursday, June 19, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Announcing the Plantronics SDK for Mac private beta! Sign up for the Plantronics SDK for Mac private beta, and explore our Native Library API. Enhance your OS X app with our contextually aware headsets and advanced features Read about and sign up for the private beta here. Code Smarter with Intel! Intel is inside more and more Android devices, and we have tools and resources to make your app development faster and easier. Visit the Intel® Developer Zone for Android now! Windows Phone OS to dominate B2B by mid-2015 "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you." Oh wait, no song lyrics in this newsletter. Sorry. Great phones, but still. Good luck with those plans. (more: Mobile News) Security firm: Neither iOS nor Android inherently more secure than the other There you go: ammunition for the "ZOMG! H@ck3rz!" camp, and the "Don't worry, be happy" camp. Still, it is a good survey of the types of threats. (more: Infoworld) Perl advances onto Android I have to admit: I'm not a huge fan of Perl, but that's mostly due to my inadequacies with regex. Still, it is a hugely powerful (albeit write-only) language, and getting more alternatives for Android development is a good thing. (more: InfoQ) Telerik Kendo UI- Everything You Need to Build Sites and Apps with JS and HTML5. The complete package offers 70+rich UI widgets, powerful data source, exceptionally fast micro-templates, pixel-perfect themes, mobile support and industry leading technical support, even during your 30-day trial. Thousands of code samples at your finger tips Browse MSDN code samples...from your phone. Yes, all of the incredible assistance that samples on MSDN provide, like Color.Red is "A Color representing a system-defined color." OK, there are probably more useful ones as well. (more: Channel9) Amazon's new phone is a dream for developers, says an early API partner Assuming your users are on the one network that will have access to the new phone, that is. I'm sure the APIs exposed are pretty good, certainly Firefly looks pretty useful. (more: Venture Beat) Quantum Paper And Google's upcoming effort to make consistent UI simple Looks like Google will be having its own 'Metro' design guidelines soon. (more: Android Police) Beta Testing on iOS 8 with TestFlight With Apple & Google locking down their app stores, I'm glad they're adding features like this to make testing a little better. Well, better than just the devs using the emulator can do. (more: InfoQ) Latest Articles 7 articles overall. 6 new, 1 updated. New articles added Android Android New Runtime ART - Member 10582597 New Runtime in Android operating system Kit Kat version (Android 4.4) New Tips and Tricks added Android Android Database Example Project (thread safe version) - Right Handed Monkey This is a tutorial for accessing sqlite databases in Android in a thread safe manner iPhone Adding a Notification Message to an iOS App - MikeGledhill How to add an fade-in message to your iPhone app in 5 minutes Tips and Tricks updated Cross Platform Apply a custom default style on QML controls - Marco Bertschi A short guide on how you can style and customize the appearance of you QML controls in a CSS-like way New Technical Blogs added Android Android Networking Example and Tutorial (with easy retries) - Right Handed Monkey CodeProjectThis post explains how to use the WorxForUs Network framework to have an Android app that works robustly even in areas that have poor network connectivity.  Background:I wrote this library because none of the tutorials I found went clearly into the different types of faults that you can Obscured Shared Preferences for Android - Right Handed Monkey What are Shared Preferences for? Shared Preferences on Android are great for keeping information that you use in an app.  But this information is all stored in plain text.  If a user has a rooted device, then they can simply go in an examine what you have in your preferences under /data/data/com.pac Saving Preferences in your Android Application - Cindy Potvin This is the third post in my series about saving data in Android. © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click here. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com